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Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
Thomas Cole (1 de febrero de 1801 - 11 de febrero de 1848) fue un pintor estadounidense de origen británico nacido en Bolton, Lancashire (Inglaterra). Comenzó su carrera artística como xilógrafo. En 1819 emigró a Estados Unidos de América con sus padres y continuó trabajando como grabador.
- American
- Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century.
- American
- February 1, 1801
- Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- February 11, 1848
Thomas Cole inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School.
Cole was so moved by the volcano's beauty that he produced several sketches and at least six paintings of it. The most famous of these works is A View of Mount Etna from Taormina which is a 78-by-120-inch (1,980 by 3,050 mm) oil on canvas.
Thomas Cole American. 1836. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 759. Long known as "The Oxbow," this work is a masterpiece of American landscape painting, laden with possible interpretations.
Thomas Cole was the first of the Hudson River School of painters, often characterized as being the first native American school of painting. Though devoted to the study of nature, and usually thought of as a landscape artist, moralistic and religious themes were central to Cole's paintings.
